A Salopian Worthy; or, A Week in Eldorado

Sette of Odd Volumes. Addleshaw (Percy)   Privately Printed for the Sette of Odd Volumes, 1909 First Edition One of 151 numbered copies  12mo Wrappers Very nice copy  The story of the youthful Abraham Causton, a little-known nineteenth century confidence trickster, who by the simple expedient of declaring himself wealthy found that bankers fell over themselves to offer him loans and tradesmen to offer credit: “He took money in vast sums, and he made the tailors busy” and for a short time was known as “The Fortunate Youth”. No. LIX of the Sette’s “Privately Printed Opuscula”. 

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